A new documentary film investigates what triggered the doomed attempted escape of more than 1,000 Japanese prisoners of war ...

For the first time, the numbers of prisoners of war incarcerated at camps across Japan during World War II and their ...

Edwin "Ned" Nye was working on Wake Island when the Japanese bombed it on December 8, 1941.

NAGASAKI, Japan — Hundreds of prisoners of war from Allied countries were held at brutal Japanese camps in Nagasaki when the United States dropped an atomic bomb 80 years ago. Their presence during ...

TOKYO (AP) — The prisoners of war held in Tokyo’s Omori POW camp saw some of the most horrific destruction during the last months of World War II, as American B-29 bombers dropped incendiary bombs ...

U.S. sailors and Japanese service members remembered American prisoners of war and Japanese laborers who died building the ...

TOKYO — This year, no former U.S. prisoners from World War II made an annual trip to the Japanese capital at the invitation of their former captors. Instead, a son and six daughters came this week to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. TAIPEI, Taiwan — Robert Rosendahl was just 19 — too young in those days to drink a beer or cast a vote — when he was sent to ...

For much of their lives, Dawne Clay and Rick Szczepanski have been getting to know their troubled fathers. Both men endured cold, hunger, disease and brutality as prisoners of the Japanese during ...

Military scientists have identified the remains of an Illinois soldier who died during World War II at a Japanese prisoner-of-war camp in the Philippines. The remains of Army Pfc. Harry Jerele of ...